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Name: Clay McInnis
Position (in student organization): President
Date survey submitted: 7/14/09
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Auburn Sustainability Action Program (ASAP)
Number of active members: 52
Website: http://www.auburn.edu/asap
Date of last meeting: April 21, 2009
Frequency of meetings: 2 times a month
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: Opening a dialog between our group and city/state level environmental lobbyists. Our goal is to serve as a channel for voicing student opinion on legislation to our representatives. We also provide help to the Office of Sustainability and assist other student led environmental organizations.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: Progress has been limited due to ASAP’s age, but ASAP has gotten students involved in programs that involve the Office of Sustainability and their programs. ASAP has had film screenings and awareness days on campus.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[X] No
[ ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[X] Yes. Please describe:
Auburn University’s SGA has a sponsored program for environmental awareness which is responsible for communicating sustainability within the Auburn community, it is comprised of a “Director of Environmental Awareness” and two “Assistant Directors of Environmental Awareness”.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school:
Our lobbying campaign began with a short lived project called “Prep-Our-Reps” through which we hoped to educate our representatives on key issues concerning the environment. We used email to inform our group’s members and encouraged students to contact our leaders via phone by positioning ourselves on the campus with contact information and phones ready during periods of high foot traffic.
Another campaign was called “Fact Fridays” -- each Friday members of ASAP highlighted a specific issue and sat at a table along a popular walkway on campus informing as many students as possible of the week's issue. Compelling facts were selected to draw students attention.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible:
SGA Program for Environmental Awareness
http://www.auburn.edu/sga/Programs/Environmental/EnvironmentalAwareness.htm
Environmental Awareness Organization
http://www.auburn.edu/student_info/eao/
Green Builders
https://fp.auburn.edu/stuorgs/more_info.aspx?OrganizationID=388
AU Recycling Student Committee
Organized by AU Recycling ( https://fp.auburn.edu/recycling/ )
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition):
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
We also have informal contact with: Alabama Water Watch, Energize Alabama and Conservation Alabama – mainly ASAP relies on these organizations as a resource -- productive two-way dialog is not established yet.
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Name: Nathan Warner
Position (in student organization): Student Government Association Assistant Director of Environmental Committee
Date survey submitted: July 15, 2009
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: SGA Environmental Committee
Number of active members: Currently 2, expanding in the fall
Website: http://www.auburn.edu/sga/Branches/Cabinet/Cabinet.htm
Date of last meeting: 6/28/2009
Frequency of meetings: Weekly
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: N/a
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: N/a
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[ ] No
[ X] Yes. Please list details for each competition. See below in Sustainability in Student Gov section.
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[X] Yes. Please describe:
The SGA Environmental Committee is newly founded committee under the Initiatives subgroup in SGA Cabinet. With our duties and responsibilities starting this past April, we are currently planning and organizing various projects that will hopefully be completed in this next year. Along with our responsibility of helping facilitate communication between all environmental groups on campus and helping publicize events for the environmental organizations, we are currently working on an SGA project environmental approval system to increase the use of sustainable practices in SGA projects and events.
We are also currently working on two competitions. One is the “Greek Go Green/Greenest Greek” competition, where fraternities will compete with energy reduction (from previous years) during the same time as Sustain-a-bowl, a month-long on-campus energy audit competition in February (see Office of Sustainability events). The winner will get the title of “Greenest Greek” as well as spirit points, a system used by Greek life/SGA that contains various rewards such as block seating for football games.
The other is two week long aluminum/soda can school-wide competition against Louisiana State University, which will be during the two weeks before the LSU vs. AU football game in the fall. While currently the only prize is bragging rights, we are researching the possibility of donating all or a percentage of the profits to an environmental cause of the winning school’s choice.
These events will hopefully expose students to the benefits of energy reduction (environmental and economic impact) as well as the various recycling programs on campus, especially important this next semester due to the change from single-stream recycling to sorted recycling.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school:
All are described in previous section.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible: Auburn Sustainability Action Program
Environmental Awareness Organization
Committee of 19 (Auburn’s War on Hunger) student group
http://www.auburn.edu/event/hunger/
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition):
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Name: William Paul Warren
Position (in student organization): President
Date survey submitted: 16 – July – 2009
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
1) Please describe the student-run campus environmental/sustainability organization in which you have a leadership role.
Name of organization: Environmental Awareness Organization
Number of active members: 40
Website: http://www.auburn.edu/eao
Date of last meeting: 30 April 2009
Frequency of meetings: twice a month
Key issues addressed and programs implemented since August 2008: We’ve been trying to raise awareness on campus about sustainability. We have also been trying to get students involved with game day recycling. We have been trying to help the Alabama Water Watch with more volunteers.
Progress made on each issue/program since August 2008: We’ve put on three workshops to bring people in and raise awareness. Two workshops were on green living and one was on recycling and reuse. We helped via volunteers with the Office of Sustainability’s Sustain-A-Bowl competition. For game day recycling we have been getting out and doing the recycling and handing out bags on game days with our club members. We’ve also formed a committee of people from our organization and others to come up with ideas to get more students involved from around campus. For the Alabama Water Watch we’ve helped get people trained and involved with their organization.
SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND COMPETITIONS
2) Does your group organize any sustainability challenges/competitions for your campus and/or with other colleges?
[X] No
[ ] Yes. Please list details for each competition.
#1 - Name of competition:
Year initiated:
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SUSTAINABILITY IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
3) Does your student government include a specific position or committee dedicated to campus sustainability issues?
[ ] No
[X] Yes. Please describe: This past semester we had a committee dedicated to sustainability on campus. All students could apply to be a part of the committee and go through an application process. Once the committee members were decided and the SGA appointed a leader, we met once or twice a month to discuss awareness and involvement on campus. The committee helped to create a place were all the organizations on campus could put together their ideas, and they could discuss what each group was doing. The committee also united different organizations on campus with a single goal – to make Auburn University more sustainable and raise awareness.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
4) Please describe any additional campus sustainability activities or projects that you or your group has initiated at your school: Every year we do an outdoor concert called Earthfest sometime near or around Earth Day. We get local musicians to come out to the Arboretum on campus and play music for a few hours. The concert helps raise money so we can put on educational workshops and other things through out the year. It also helps raise awareness about Earth Day. We get other organizations from on campus and off to come and set up booths with information for people to see. Often one of the best things about Earthfest is that people hear about the Arboretum, which is very under publicized.
5) Please list and briefly describe any other student-run organizations related to campus sustainability at your school, and provide URLs if available (e.g., student groups; student government committees; student-run food co-ops, gardens/farms, bike co-ops) and provide contact information of the student leaders, if possible:
Questions 6 is for informational purposes only; your response will NOT be included in the Report Card evaluation process.
6) Please list any regional or national networks with which your group is affiliated (e.g., Energy Action Coalition/Campus Climate Challenge, Sierra Student Coalition, a state PIRG, a state student sustainability coalition): Alabama River Watch. Southeast Student Renewable Energy Coalition. Campus Climate Challenge.
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